Hydration Tips & Top Food Picks for Peak Performance.

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Happy Thursday everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your day. Yesterday I did a whole recap of how I ate during my CrossFit Competition & how I used some of the Thrive Forward Sports Edition principals to POWER my day! Today I wanted to touch on hydration & some of the top food choices for peak performance. Notice the empty water bottle in hand in the picture below – taking place of our teammate Al who left before we snapped a pic, but nonetheless – I couldn’t get enough water that day and I made sure to be constantly hydrated. Hydration & Electrolytes Thrive Forward … [Read more...]

Tips on Eating For Athletic Competitions using some Thrive Forward Principals!

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Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you’re enjoying your day. If you missed it, I recapped my first CrossFit Competition yesterday [here]! Reviewing that post motivates me to go to every workout (regardless if it’s CrossFit or hitting the gym for a lift) I get excited to take that step towards progress every day. With every athletic performance, I truly believe that FUELING your body properly is such an important factor in how well you will do. I would always tell my kids with student teaching, it’s like fueling a car. If you try to run your car on empty, what happens? BUT if you give … [Read more...]

Raw Dinner Review & Patriot Games Mini Recap!

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Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. I am currently enjoying this sunny Sunday by sipping on some coffee & relaxing because I am a very sore from my first CrossFit Competition I participated in yesterday! I first wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who wished me luck! Big thanks to one of my biggest inspirations, my girl PetiteFi, & everyone else for the Instagram love! Special shout out to my wonderful family & boyfriend Corey who supported me the whole day! I swear every muscle on me is feeling it today and I’m sure tomorrow may be a … [Read more...]

Saturday Sports Edition: Thrive Forward Recovery

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  Happy Saturday everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your weekend! Today I wanted to share with you some more information from one of my favorite programs {Thrive Forward} I’ve blogged about this program before [here] & [here] where I spoke about the new Sports Edition component to the Thrive movement! I am loving all of this information especially geared towards sports training,  endurance, plant based proteins, & recovery. Recovery is a topic that I often research because there really is so much information out there. What I like to do is act like a sponge and … [Read more...]

Lemon Carrot Poppy Seed Cookies!

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TGIF everyone! I hope you had a good week & were able to reach some of your weekly goals that you set! Speaking of goals, have you declared your #WHATSBEAUTIFUL goal & joined #TEAMTRUETOYOU? I am so excited to be working with FitFluential & Under Armour Women throughout [this campaign]! On Monday be ready for the first challenge! Don’t forget that you can upload anything to the site to show your progress. Can’t wait to see what we all can achieve! Details on yesterdays [post] #IWILL ___________________________________ Today I wanted to shared a new recipe just in time … [Read more...]

New Exercise: Pin Party Plate Lifts!

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Hi all! So glad you enjoyed the [Roasted Eggplant & Zucchini Tortilla Pizza] from yesterday’s post! Who says gluten free plant based recipes have to be boring? Not this girl! It’s all about taking the time to experiment & find what flavor combos you like best. Earlier in the week I posted about my [Weekend Recap] where the boy & I hit the gym with some new exercises to share! Being a personal trainer I love to learn new workouts & exercises, not only for myself, but for my clients as well! When I work out in the gym with Corey, he becomes the personal trainer in the … [Read more...]

Roasted Eggplant & Zucchini Tortilla Pizza

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hey all! I hope you’re enjoying your Wednesday! I’ve been a busy bee this week with meetings, clients, workouts, & being a driver/nurse for papacakes who recently just got knee surgery. He actually tore his meniscus on a job so I’ve been helping out by going to the doctors appointments & such with him. He’s doing well & was just going over the exercises he needs to do while rehabbing that I can totally help him with! Today I wanted to share with you a new recipe that I’ve been wanting to for a while now! Recently I’ve been craving pizza but [surprisingly] didn’t feel … [Read more...]

Friday Features: Embracing Our Different Food Choices!

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Good Afternoon everyone! Happy Friday! Don’t forget that you have until Saturday at midnight to enter the Headbands Of Hope Giveaway! I’ve already been told by a handful of people that they’ve purchased some headbands & that made my day! You are making a difference in this beautiful cause. ______________________________ I wanted to start today’s Feature Friday by highlighting a post from FitFluential where they asked… For those who have followed my blog, you all know that I constantly say #BETRUETOYOU – why? Because everyone's body is different & works … [Read more...]

Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

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Happy Thursday all! If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Headbands Of Hope Giveaway – check it out [here] & prepare to be inspired by this beautiful cause. Even though I post a lot of meal ideas on Instagram & on here, I feel like I haven’t shared a cookie recipe in a while! This is one of those recipes where I literally through everything into a bowl & it worked! Trust me, many recipes go unshared based on these experiments not always working BUT this one is a winner! What makes these even more awesome is that I made them at 7am on a Saturday which is not … [Read more...]

Friday Features: Smoothies & BBQ Sauce.

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Good afternoon everyone! I hope wherever you are that you’re safe. With everything that’s happening today, I wanted to update you on some of my favorite things lately to hopefully just get your mind off of things for a few minutes. As Kelly Ripa said the other morning, her job is to be a entertainment show & that’s what they will do. So even though I am nowhere near the status of Kelly, I do agree that I will do my best to hopefully put a smile on your face while continuing to pray for Boston. Lately, I’ve been starting my morning off with a big green smoothie! I tell ya, I look … [Read more...]